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The 15-time Grammy winner, who has previously spoken openly about his prescription pill addiction, revealed that he is celebrating 18 years of sobriety.
In an April 20 Instagram post, Eminem (born Marshall Bruce Mathers III) shared a zoomed-in photo of himself wearing a graphic T-shirt and holding a coin to commemorate the special occasion.
The coin's outer edge read "To thine own self be true," while "unity, service, and recovery" were etched in a triangle formation around the number 18 in Roman numerals.
Eminem, 53, captioned the photo with a gold medal emoji: "XVIII."
Previously, "The Real Slim Shady" rapper opened up about his addiction to prescription pills, which included Vicodin, Valium, Ambien, and Xanax, starting in the late '90s and ending around 2008, which led to a frightening health scare.
"I got into this vicious cycle of, 'I'm depressed, so I need more pills,'" Eminem stated in his 2025 documentary Stans, according to Us Weekly. "Then your tolerance gets so high that you end up overdosing."
"I woke up in the hospital, and I didn't know what happened," he continued. "I woke up in the hospital with tubes in me and shit, and I couldn't get up; I wanted to move."
The "Mockingbird" hitmaker—father to children Hailie Jade, 30, Alaina Marie, 33, and Stevie Laine, 24, with ex-wife Kim Scott—noted that when he returned home, he felt like he "needed something" and that he was "going to die" if nothing changed.
The "Stepping Stone" rapper also opened up about missing one of his eldest daughters' birthday parties, acting as a wakeup call.
"I cried because it was like, 'Oh my god, I missed that,'" Eminem explained. "I kept asking myself, 'Do you want to f—king miss this again? Do you want to miss everything? "If you can't do it for yourself, you f--king p---y, do it for them."
As a result, he remarked, "I realized I'm never doing this again."
And his past drug use had an impact on more than just his family life. Indeed, the music legend admitted that at the start of his sobriety journey, he had to "relearn how to walk and talk, and for the most part, relearn how to rap again."
"My writing had gotten terrible," he admitted in the documentary. "When I first got it back, it was exciting. Because I felt it. It would be conversations, just having conversations with people or the TV.”
And while working on his 2009 album Relapse, which detailed his sobriety journey, he felt empowered to leave the shame of his addiction behind.
"It did something. It turned the light on," Eminem explained. "I realized I am no longer embarrassed about my sobriety. I began viewing sobriety as a superpower, and I took pride in the fact that I was able to quit."
